“Die-ins” will no longer be permitted at Manhattan’s Grand Central Terminal, Metropolitan Transportation Authority officials said Tuesday, after a month of nightly protests at the station.

The protests – in which groups of demonstrators lie down, as if they are dead – have occurred every night at Grand Central since Dec. 3, when a Staten Island grand jury declined to indict a white police officer in the death of Eric Garner, an unarmed black man. Read More »

Activists hold signs in a December protest outside Gracie Mansion in Manhattan.

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The protesters who have rocked New York City in the weeks since a Staten Island grand jury declined to indict an officer in the death of Eric Garner would be marching to a different beat if Rudolph Giuliani were still in charge, the former mayor said on Friday. Read More »

New Yorkers strongly oppose giving a raise to state legislators — the subject of heated debate in Albany as lawmakers head toward next year’s legislative session — according to a Siena College poll released Friday.

Sixty-three percent of poll respondents oppose raising the salary of state lawmakers, the poll found, while 28% favor doing so.

Siena College pollster Steve Greenberg described opposition to a legislative pay raise as “an issue that unifies New York voters.”

The majority of New York City voters disagree with the decision by a Staten Island grand jury not to indict the police officer in the death of Eric Garner, but want the protests in the city’s streets to come to an end, a new poll finds.

The Quinnipiac University Poll released Wednesday found 67% of voters think the grand jury got it wrong in the Garner case, while 25% agree with the decision.

Yet, 57% of voters say the streets should be cleared of the protesters, who have been demonstrating for police reform in recent weeks. Meanwhile, 34%, or more than one out of three New Yorkers, said the protesters should be allowed to block traffic. Read More »

Gwen Carr, at center, mother of the late Eric Garner, and Erica Garner, right, daughter of Mr. Garner, participate in a rally on Staten Island.

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As the sun set over Staten Island Thursday evening, about two dozen protesters stood with signs calling for changes in the police department, not far from the site where in July Eric Garner was arrested.

Revelers dressed as Santa Claus walk in Manhattan during the 2013 annual SantaCon bar crawl event in New York City.

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“SantaCon,” an annual bar crawl in which participants dress as Santa Claus, is scaling back this year to make room for protesters against police violence.

Tens of thousands of people are expected to march in New York City Saturday as part of demonstrations, sparked by a Staten Island grand-jury decision not to indict a police officer in the death of Eric Garner. Read More »

Brooklyn Nets guard Deron Williams wears an “I Can’t Breathe” T-shirt while he warms up before Monday’s game against the Cleveland Cavaliers.

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The black “I Can’t Breathe” T-shirts that several Brooklyn Nets players sported during warm-ups at Monday night’s home game against the Cleveland Cavaliers, were given to the players after the grassroots activist group Justice League NYC arranged a delivery with hip-hop star Jay-Z. Read More »

New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio said Sunday the U.S. needs to change the relationship between law-enforcement officials and the communities they patrol.

Mr. de Blasio, in an appearance on ABC’s “This Week,” declined to say whether he agreed with the decision of a Staten Island grand jury not to indict an NYPD officer in the choking death of Eric Garner, instead saying he respected the judicial process. More broadly, he said the death of Mr. Garner and other similar incidents in Ferguson, Mo., and Cleveland, Ohio, underscored the need for a broader national conversation about the actions of law enforcement officials and their interactions with minorities.

“Our police keep us safe and yet, as I said, there’s been not just decades of problems, but a history of centuries of racism that undergird this reality,” Mr. de Blasio said. Read More »

It marked the second day of demonstrations since the decision was announced Wednesday afternoon. Protests in New York went into the morning Friday as marchers spread out from Foley Square into other parts of the city including the West Side Highway, Brooklyn Bridge and Times Square.

As protests unfolded in New York and other U.S. cities, Wall Street Journal reporters were on the ground and captured the events on social media. Read More »